Memories of the Space Age (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: J. G. Ballard
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Plot: Apocalyptic and catastrophe, science fiction
- Time of Work: The future
- Setting: Cape Canaveral, Florida
- Principal Characters: Dr. Edward Mallory, Anne Mallory, Hinton, Gale Shepley
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Future, Space flight or travel, Fathers, Death or dying, Florida, Sick persons, Space and time
- Locales: Cape Canaveral, FL
The Story
“Memories of the Space Age” is presented through the consciousness of Dr. Edward Mallory. Most of the story is narrated in the third person, although a few passages, ostensibly taped by Mallory, present events in the first person and illustrate his increasingly troubled mental state.
Once employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Mallory and his wife, Anne, have returned to a deserted Cape Canaveral for the most ambiguous of reasons. Both Florida and the space program have been abandoned, casualties of a spreading “space...
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